darling-dmg
This project allows ordinary users to directly mount OS X disk images under Linux via FUSE. darling-dmg is part of Darling - http://www.darlinghq.org
Without darling-dmg, the only way to do this would be to manually extract the DMG file, become root and mount the HFS+ filesystem as root. This is slow, wasteful and may even crash your system. The project's author has seen the Linux HFS+ implementation cause kernel crashes.
Supported file types
- DMG (UDIF) files containing an Apple Disk Image.
- Apple Disk Images containing an HFS+/HFSX file system.
- HFS+/HFSX file systems (incl. file systems embedded within HFS).
This means, darling-dmg can mount DMG files or unpacked DMG files or a single partition carved out of the latter.
Read only access only.
Build Requirements
| Dependency | Required version | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GCC/Clang | >5 (GCC), >3 (Clang) | Compiler with C++11 support |
| CMake | 3.10 | Build system |
| pkg-config | Library-agnostic package detection | |
| OpenSSL | Base64 decoding | |
| Bzip2 | Decompression | |
| Zlib | Decompression | |
| FUSE | 2.x (not 3.x) | Userspace filesystem support |
| libicu | Unicode support | |
| libxml2 | XML (property list) parsing |
darling-dmg requires a C++11-capable compiler, CMake >3.10 and make alongside the remaining dependencies mentioned above. Below are common ways to install library dependencies.
On Fedora (and derivatives):
sudo dnf install fuse-devel bzip2-devel libicu-devel libxml2-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel pkgconfOn Debian (and derivatives):
sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev libbz2-dev libicu-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev libz-dev pkg-configOn Alpine Linux:
sudo apk add fuse-dev bzip2-dev icu-dev libxml2-dev openssl-dev zlib-dev pkgconfUsage
darling-dmg <file-to-mount> <where-to-mount> [FUSE arguments]
Accessing resource forks
Resource forks are available via xattrs (extended attributes) or preferably under the name /original/filename#..namedfork#rsrc.
Reusability
Some people have had success with using darling-dmg as a library for their own use.